The development objective of the First Phase of the Sindh Irrigated Agriculture Productivity Enhancement Project for Pakistan is to improve agriculture productivity for small and medium size farmers in Sindh.
... Voir la suite Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (1) undertaking capacity building and awareness program for the farmers regarding project intervention including integrated pest management (IPM) plan; (2) avoiding the stagnant water and following the judicious use of soft insecticides with IPM approach; (3) considering the planting of trees as an important component of environment; (4) using masks on the face for controlling air pollution and encouraging noise protectors on the ears to the people working in the agriculture activities; (5) encouraging the farmers through awareness for promotion of drip irrigation in undulating terrain; and (6) constructing washing bays at appropriate places along the water course and taking due care to monitor this activity to avoid water pollution.
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The development objective of the First Phase of the Sindh Irrigated Agriculture Productivity Enhancement Project for Pakistan is to improve agriculture productivity for small and medium size farmers in Sindh.
... Voir la suite Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (i) all land owning displaced persons losing land or non-land assets, i.e., crops and trees whether covered by legal title or traditional land rights, whether for temporary or permanent acquisition; (ii) tenants and share?croppers, whether registered or not; for all non?land assets, based on prevailing tenancy arrangements; (iii) displaced persons losing the use of structures and utilities, including titled and non?titled owners, registered, unregistered, tenants and lease holders plus encroachers and squatters; (iv) displaced persons losing business, income and salaries of workers, or a person or business suffering temporary effects, such as disturbance to land, crops, and business operations both permanently and also temporarily during construction; (v) loss of communal property, lands and public infrastructure; (vi) vulnerable displaced persons identified through the social impact assessment (SIA); and (vii) in the event of relocation, all displaced persons will receive transitional and other support to reestablish livelihoods. The displaced/affected persons are eligible for rehabilitation subsidies and for the compensation of lost land, structures and utilities along with loss of livelihood. There will also be special provisions for vulnerable displaced persons i.e. very old, physically or mentally handicapped, poor below the poverty line, widows, and women headed household and socially isolated.
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The Dasu Hydropower Project (DHP) for Pakistan seeks to modernize and expand the energy sector of the country, while shifting from thermal generated electricity to low cost and high reward, clean generation of hydropower.
... Voir la suite This environmental and social assessment report describes the potential environmental and social impacts of the project, and provides a framework with which to review and address these impacts. Significant potential impacts identified are: changes in physiography and landform; loss of natural vegetation and trees; impact of increased traffic and transportation; loss of bridges and access roads connecting villages on right bank; effects of land acquisition; impacts on river habitat due to construction activities and drying of river section between two coffer dams; fish entrapment and mortality; potential risk of pollution of air, noise, soil and water resources by construction works; risk of pollution from solid waste and waste effluents; increased risk of landslides; noise pollution; and impacts from increased human activities on flora and fauna. Appropriate mitigation measures such as developing and implementing a landscape plan in the project footprint areas; planting of native trees near resettlement villages and along roads and promotion of use of alternatives for fuel; traffic management plan, including awareness raising and safety measures; implementing resettlement action plan and providing adequate compensation; controlling waste water and sediment releases to river and implementing water quality management protocols; protection measures at inlets of tunnels to deter movement of fish; and pollution prevention plans to be prepared and implemented by contractors, are suggested to help minimize or avoid these adversities.
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The First Phase of the Dasu Hydropower Project (DHP) for Pakistan seeks to modernize and expand the energy sector of the country, while shifting from thermal generated electricity to low cost and high reward, clean generation of hydropower.
... Voir la suite Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures includes: a) ensure that displaced persons without titles to land or any recognizable legal rights to land are eligible for resettlement assistance and compensation for loss of non-land assets; b) develop procedures in a transparent, consistent, and equitable manner if land acquisition is through negotiated settlement to ensure that those people who enter into negotiated settlements will maintain the same or better income and livelihood status; c) improve the standards of living of the displaced poor and other vulnerable groups, including women, to at least national minimum standards. In rural areas provide them with legal and affordable access to land and resources, and in urban areas provide them with appropriate income sources and legal and affordable access to adequate housing; d) pay compensation and provide other resettlement entitlements before physical or economic displacement; and e) monitor and assess resettlement outcomes, their impacts on the standards of living of displaced persons, and whether the objectives of the resettlement plan have been achieved by taking into account the baseline conditions and the results of resettlement monitoring. Disclose monitoring reports.
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